In Larry Niven's Destiny's Road, the title planet's indigenous life is based upon right-handed proteins.
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Although little was known about chemical chirality in the time of Lewis Carroll, his work Through the Looking-glass contains a prescient reference to the differing biological activities of enantiomeric drugs: "Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink," Alice said to her cat.
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